Aliko Dangote has accused the Nigerian Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers of collecting as much as N50,000 on every truck that loads fuel at the refinery, warning that such charges ultimately push up fuel pump prices and burden consumers.
Me:@NigeriaStories please let’s do the math. ₦50,000 per truck × 2,000 trucks daily (assuming)= ₦100 million per day. Over 5 days, that’s ₦500 million siphoned off — not for infrastructure, not for safety, but for so called union. That is half a billion naira in one week, extracted from a single refinery operation.
This is not union activism, this is extortion. And the cost doesn’t stop at the gate. It travels into fuel pump prices, transport fares, food costs, and inflation. Every Nigerian will pays for this silence.
The @AlikoDangote refinery was meant to be a turning point—a symbol of self-reliance and industrial rebirth. But if unions and regulators are now taxing progress at the gate, then we’re not refining oil—we’re refining corruption.
This is not just about Dangote. It’s about a system where rent-seeking is normalized. If government won’t protect the refinery from predatory levies, it’s not enabling growth—it is sabotaging Nigeria’s growth.